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Support for GraalVM

We have plans to use GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org/ for some of our microservices. Especially for cloud native applications GraalVM is a very interesting project. Spring Boot is working on supporting GraalVM with spring-native project: https://g...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Planned for future release

Support for r2dbc

Hi team, opening this feature request on behalf of a customer to support monitoring of r2dbc projects which is "the new cool way to access databases" :) Comments from customer:"we have a fully reactive Spring-Boot application which uses R2DBC to a...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 7 Planned for future release

Visibility of sensitive data

From the transactional portal of a client that performs a query to the iSeries and is displayed in Instana, from the “analytics” functionality some sensitive data is evidenced that must be filtered. It was detected that from a call to the database...
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Planned for future release

Azure extension install & update

The only way to install and update the Instana Azure extension is my manuell clicking in the Azure webUI. This is not a scalable solution if you have hundreds of App Services. There should be a way to install och update the Instana Azure extension...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 3 Planned for future release

Retention of JVM data after change in PID/ID

When an Application release, update/change, or outage occurs, all JVM data for the process ID running prior is lost in Instana. This has been confirmed as correct functionality within Instana through ticket "TS013919515" "It is expected behaviour ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 2 Planned for future release

Add support for SAP Jco connector

Adding the ability to trace the entry spans from SAP Jco connector increases the versatility of Instana. Customers can benefit from tracing additional technologies and this keeps Instana competitive in the market against it's competitors.
6 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Planned for future release

Capture custom HTTP response headers

Background and context A feature we use heavily with Instana is the ability to capture custom HTTP request headers. This gives us a great ability to analyse the data, slice and dice based on filters and groups on headers. A couple of simple exampl...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

Need to automatically detect and bypass older and unsupported .NET applications

We are deploying the Agent into a Windows .NET environment. The server has a mixture of older IIS Hosted .NET 4.0 applications, .NET 4.5 and newer, and .NET core applications. Instana is attempting to auto-instrument the .NET 4.0 applications and ...
6 months ago in Instana / .NET 0 Planned for future release

Log4Net & SeriLog missing tags

Instana's log monitoring supports several very useful default tags, some of these tags are sadly not filled in for the popular .NET (Framework) logging frameworks, see below. Please fill these tags such that we can actually use the log monitoring,...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / .NET / Logging 0 Planned for future release

Capture custom HTTP request headers for outgoing calls

Background/Context We have a strong need to track http request headers on outgoing calls as part of detailed monitoring of a 3rd party integration. Feature request Support HTTP request headers for exit spans. In our case we need this for the follo...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 0 Planned for future release